As a widely used English proficiency test that includes writing component, IELTS raises pedagogical challenges require high-stake literacy skills to meet the demands of assessment criteria. Many studies on various teaching strategies for tasks in preparation courses have been conducted. However, more information about explicit instructions is needed help test-taker candidates respond effectivel...

1 – Introduction In this work, we are presenting our approach to automatic genre classification for music files, or songs, which consists of audio files represented by a time series data, where the goal is to automatically process the files, to establish a genre assignment. Such applications that require automatic genre classification include internet radio stations that play similar songs base...

This thesis focuses on the role of design patterns in the design of the online newspaper genre. The research question put forth here is: How can design patterns be used to improve the online newspaper design process? Genre theory was applied to revile the structure and visual pattern of online newspaper design in an analysis of 85 Swedish online newspapers. Based on the results from the genre a...

Musical genre classification is a promising yet difficult task in the field of musical information retrieval. As a widely used feature in genre classification systems, MFCC is typically believed to encode timbral information, since it represents short-duration musical textures. In this paper, we investigate the invariance of MFCC to musical key and tempo, and show that MFCCs in fact encode both...

The successful use of digital media will require new or transformed genres of digital communication. Not only particular technologies or modes of communication or presentation such as hypertext, email, or the Web, but also on complex communicative forms anchored in specific institutions and practices. Along with the digital analogues of print forms like the newspaper, the annual report, the how...

This thesis describes and analyzes implications of going from hypertext news to hypermedia news through a process of design, involving users and producers. As in any product development, it is difficult to conceive design of a novel news format that does not relate to earlier genres, and thus to antecedent designs. The hypothesis is that this problem can be addressed by explicitly taking a genr...

This paper presents an automatic genre classification model that implements a flexible classification scheme, i.e. a scheme capable of performing zero-, oneor multi-genre assignment. I suggest that this scheme is more appropriate for genres on the web, because many web pages have often more than one genre or none at all. The model that I propose relies on the distinction between the concepts of...

We propose an attribute-based taxonomy approach to providing alternative labels to music. Labels, such as genre, are often used as ground-truth for describing song similarity in music information retrieval (MIR) systems. A consistent labelling scheme is usually a key in determining quality of classifier learning in training and performance in testing of an MIR system. We examine links between c...

Movie ratings play an important role both in determining the likelihood of a potential viewer to watch the movie and in reflecting the current viewer satisfaction with the movie. They are available in several sources like the television guide, best-selling reference books, newspaper columns, and television programs. Furthermore, movie ratings are crucial for recommendation engines that track th...